Honda Civic How to: Disable the Day Time Running Lights and Seat Belt Chime

I recently purchased a 2009 Honda Civic. It is my first venture into a non-Toyota vechicle. As with any purchase, as soon as I get my hands on it, I go about fixing all of the small annoyances I have with it.

This car is a blast to drive and doesn’t have too many annoyances that I needed to address. I figured I’d share a couple of them as others out there might also encounter the same issues.

Daytime Running Lights

I’ve never been a fan of daytime running lights. To me they just make the driver of a car with them look as if he or she forgot to turn off his or her lights. As more people drive cars with DRL, the less effective they are as a supposed safety mechanism.

This is the first car I’ve had where turning off the DRL was not an option on the headlight on/off switch.

Seatbelt Chime

The United States has turned into a very safety conscious nation. It seems that every police and governmental agency wants to ensure that every person in a vehicle is firmly strapped to any wreckage. Except, of course, if you are a young skull full of mush riding on a school bus. In this case, be prepared to turn into a missile should your crotchety driver hit anyone whilst turning around to yell at you.

While I believe it prudent to wear your seat belt, I find these seat belt laws and “Click It or Ticket” campaigns to be revenue-generating wastes of time. A government cannot ticket a society to safety, but they sure can bring in a lot of revenue in doing so.

The auto makers engineer seat belt nag systems that are horribly annoying and persistent. Can you turn them off? Of course not.

That said, if someone has a reason to not wear their seat belt, that is their call in my opinion.

After searching high and low for a solution to disable the Civic seat belt nag, I found these: Ebay – Seat Belt Nag Disablers. They work well and for $4 shipped, they were well worth it.